Re:Fact Check now available in Google Search and News
by realbarack on Friday April 07, 2017 @03:02PM
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The subtle dishonesties you speak of have existed as long as rhetoric. The true fake news is new, and a product of the internet.
Solving the first one is, in my opinion, pretty much impossible on a large scale—it requires critical reading, original research and a great deal of trust in fact sourcing.
Solving the second one is Google's goal here, and it's an important one. The Comet Pizza incident [1] was emblematic of how blatantly fake news can affect real people. Moreover fake news is engaging: it legitimately competes with real news [2]. So yeah, I think the sub-problem is large and efforts to solve it are a big deal.
Solving the first one is, in my opinion, pretty much impossible on a large scale—it requires critical reading, original research and a great deal of trust in fact sourcing.
Solving the second one is Google's goal here, and it's an important one. The Comet Pizza incident [1] was emblematic of how blatantly fake news can affect real people. Moreover fake news is engaging: it legitimately competes with real news [2]. So yeah, I think the sub-problem is large and efforts to solve it are a big deal.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_Ping_Pong#Pizzagate_cons...
[2]: http://www.vox.com/new-money/2016/11/16/13659840/facebook-fa...